The Bearcats had athletes qualify in 10 events and were led by Tyler Leipprandt who took three individual firsts. Leipprandt won the 110 hurdles (15.20), 300 hurdles (40.80) and long jump (20-9).

"With this only being his first year running track, he has really come on to the scene in those hurdles, he's running unbelievable times," said Ubly coach Kurt Long.

"I give him a lot of credit, he's just a heckuva athlete."

Other firsts came from Mitch Messing in the 3,200 (10:36.10) while Karl Recker won the discus (130-7) and placed second in the shot put (46-7 1/2).

It was the first time in Recker's four-year career that he qualified for the state finals.

"Karl Recker stepped up, he got a first and a second, so he qualified in both," Long said. "He's been a guy who's been around for four years and never qualified before."

Jestin Shantz qualified in three events as he netted seconds in the 100 (11.50), 200 (23.40), and 400 (53.00) while Robert Christenson placed second in the 110 hurdles (16.70).

Ubly actually swept the top three spots in the 110 hurdles with Mike Soule taking third just behind Christenson (16.76).

"We went 1-2-3 in the hurdles and some teams didn't even score 24 points and that's 24 points right there," Long said. "Not only did we get the firsts and seconds, but we got a lot of thirds, fourths and fifths and that's how you win a meet like this."

It's that same kind of depth, Long believes will give his team a chance to compete for a top spot at the Division 4 State Finals, June 5 at Houseman Field in Grand Rapids.

"We're looking forward to some big things in the next couple of weeks," Long said. "We'll see, we'll have our kids go there, run their best and have some fun."

Ubly also had a couple of relay teams take top honors with the 1,600 team of Eric Gentner, Matt Soule and Shantz and Leipprandt (3:37.50) and the 3,200 team of Ray Warchuck, Han So Lee, Matt Essenmacher and Steve Rutkowski (9:03.80).

Deckerville saw Rod Innes and Don Bragg take a couple of firsts. Innes won the shot put (47-9 1/2) while Bragg took the pole vault (10-6).

Nathan Oswald was the only other Deckerville athlete to qualify for the state meet as he placed second in the discus (128-10).

North Huron had its 400 and 800 relay teams not only take top honors, but break a pair of school records in the process.

The 400 relay team of Dan Deacons, Brian Deacons, Jason LesPerance and Andy Ruth came in with a time of 46.30. They broke the previous record of 46.45 set by Paul P. Adams, Randy Souva, Mark Bambach and Adam Moyer in 1995.

The 800 squad of Dan Deacons, Ryan Simmons, Brian Deacons and Ruth broke a 27-year-old record with their time of 1:35.70.

Port Hope's best finish came from Dustin Weiss who took fourth in the long jump (18-11 3/4) while Caseville had Kyle Quinn place sixth in the 800 (2:13.60).